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It's been about 4-5 days since birthing, and afoaf did the dunk and roll tek. He used the normal PF tek substrate, and did everything pretty much the PF tek way. Right now he has, on several cakes, knots forming. One cake seems to have quite a few. There is no smell of contamination, but no fruiting has occured. Three days ago was when the knots were forming, and according to many people on this forum, pinning is supposed to happen 12-48 after knots form (it's been 72 and there's not much visible change, a few knots form here and there). Anything he should do to help induce pinning?

When I used PF tek my first few times, pinning took way longer then 4-5 days. Took about 2 weeks, and I had knots of mycelium as well after about a week. Possibly just need to wait a little longer.

--------------------"How doth the little crocodile improve his shining tail, and pour the waters of the Nile on every golden scale! How cheerfully he seems to grin, how neatly spreads his claws, And welcomes little fishes in With gently smiling jaws!"

That's what we figured. We know we're being impatient, but weren't we all our first time?

One last thing...perlite is being used for humidification. On some spots, there's some orange "blobs". I don't know how they would have formed, but they don't really look like contams (plus it's perlite, we don't know how fungus could grow on a rock). Should I discard the orange colored perlite? We put a small amount of H2O2 on the orange parts last night just to make sure.

EDIT: Adding several pics...look!

Contam? On the Perlite??
Cake with most knots
Another cake with a few knots
The average cake
Another cake with orange thing next to it